A playful adaption of Anna Kemp's 2010 children's book of the same name, the puppetry piece Dogs Don't Do Ballet had a sell out run last year. With its unbounded playfulness it's not hard to see why. At the Little Angel Theatre.

Matthew Bourne’s company is back at Sadler’s Wells this month, with its award winning production of Swan Lake. An expected box office sell-out for the theatre that housed the premiere in 1995, and an exciting opportunity for dance lovers to see again the show that once took London by storm.

Lighter than the other parts of Geoffrey Beevers' adaptation of Middlemarch, the story of Fred and Mary is heartwarming, funny, smart and even a smidgen allegorical – just right for Christmas. At the Orange Tree Theatre.

Returning after a successful run at the White Bear last year, Pride and Prejudice, the Panto is a fun mash-up of Regency poise and festive silliness. The adaptation by Heather Remington and James Walker-Black manages to tick all the traditional panto boxes while keeping reasonably faithful to the plot of the novel, and works in a few surprises on the way. At the Cockpit Theatre.

Mischief Theatre's comedic take on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, as performed by the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, is a virtuosic farrago of ridiculous acting, lethal props, genuinely alarming flying sequences and total thespian mayhem which left me frequently helpless with laughter. At the Pleasance Theatre.

English National Ballet has performed The Nutcracker every year since it was founded in 1950. The latest version, by former company artistic director Wayne Eagling, had a rather traumatic creation but the old-fashioned Edwardian Nutcracker has become a favourite. At the London Coliseum.

Sam Green here turns documentary into live performance, separating and reforming the constituent parts to create an event out of understanding. His subject is Buckminster Fuller, seminal post-war American thinker, architect and designer.

This latest venture from the founder of the Reduced Shakespeare Company tells the life story of Charles Dickens through his greatest works, in an evening of song, dance and some colourful characters. At the Arts Theatre.

This play, which tells the story of Albert Namatjira, the first indigenous Australian painter to win international acclaim, premiered in Alice Springs in late 2009 and has since toured Australia. Now this fascinating story comes to London. At the Southbank Centre.

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